COM 1335 Distributed Operating Systems

Spring 2001

Times and Places
Instructors
Required and Suggested Reading
Course Syllabus
Online materials (separate page or directory)

Times and Places

Key Number
Section	01
Instructor	John Casey

Lectures

Day	Time	Location
Mondays	4:05 - 5:10	245 CN
Tuesdays	4:05 - 5:10	245 CN
Thursdays	4:05 - 5:10	245 CN

Instructor

Name	John Casey
Office	207 CN
E-mail	jcasey@ccs.neu.edu
Phon	373-3550 (on campus ext.3550)
Office Hours
Mondays
Wednesdays
Thursdays

Teaching Assistant

Name	Ping Wang
Office
E-mail	wping@ccs.neu.edu
Phone
Office Hours
Mondays
Wednesdays
Thursdays

Required and Suggested Reading

Spring 2000

Andrew Tanenbaum and Albert Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation. Second edition. (Prentice Hall, 1997).
Xerox packet: The assignments, the code (in a useful order), and one copy of each of the PSP sheets, all 3-hole punched.

References

Descriptions or code for Unix:

John Lions, Lions' Commentary on UNIX, 6th edition: with Source Code, Peer-to-Peer Communications, 1996.
M. K. McCusick, et. al., The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System, Addison-Wesley, 1996.

4.4BSD System Manager's Manual, Usenix / O'Reilly, 1994.
Michael Beck, et. al., Linux Kernel Internals, Addison Wesley, 1998.
Richard Petersen, Linux, the Complete Reference, Osborne / McGraw Hill, 1996.
Adrian Cockcroft, Sun Performance and Tuning: SPARC & Solaris, Prentice Hall PTR, 1995.

Mary Campione and Kathy Walrath, The Java Tutorial, Addison-Wesley, ????.

Windows NT:

Helen Custer, Inside Windows NT, Microsoft Press, 1993, (or the newer edition)

I/O: Processors and Peripherals:

John Hennessy and Dave Patterson, Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware-Software Interface, (2nd edition) Morgan-Kaufmann, 1998.

Course Syllabus

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